Tuesday, August 18, 1998 Published at 23:22 GMT 00:22 UKOmagh bomb warnings releasedShoppers were moved away from Omagh's courthouseThe exact warnings given before Saturday's Omagh bomb have been released to disprove claims by the Real IRA that its warnings were accurate.

Downing Street issued details of the warnings given to a TV station and the Samaritans using recognised codewords and passed on to the RUC.

The Real IRA said in a statement admitting responsibility for the bomb, which killed 28 people, that its targets were commercial and it did not intend to kill civilians.

It disputed claims that the warnings were deliberately wrong to move people closer to the bomb, which was several hundred yards from the courthouse.

The statement said: "At no time was it said it was near the courthouse."

People had been moved from the courthouse, where police understood the bomb to be, when it exploded yards from shoppers.